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HONOLULU (AP) — Kouat Noi had 15 points, Jaylen Fisher added 14, and TCU never trailed in its 82-57 win over Charlotte on Saturday night in the Diamond Head Classic. TCU (9-1), which has won six in a row, will play Bucknell in the semifinals Sunday. Desmond Bane scored 10 for the Horned Frogs and Alex Robinson had 11 assists, tying the tournament's single-game record. The senior, who had 84 assists in one season at Texas A&M, has 506 at TCU — becoming just the third player in program history with at least 500 career assists. Noi hit back-to-back 3s to cap an 11-0 run and, after Charlotte's Jailan Haslem made a layup, threw down a fast-break dunk and then made another 3 to give TCU a 14-point lead with 2:36 left in the first half. The Horned Frogs took a 40-26 lead into the break and led by as many as 30 points in the second half. Jon Davis led Charlotte (3-6) with 17 points and Jaylan McGill scored 13. Copyright 2018 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This … [Read more...] about Noi, Fisher lead TCU past Charlotte in Diamond Head Classic

Corrections and clarifications: An earlier version of this story misstated the victim's last name. It has since been corrected. CHARLOTTE — One person was shot Wednesday night and four officers were injured as a second round of protests gripped this North Carolina city in the wake of a police-involved shooting of a black man. The City of Charlotte initially tweeted the person had died, but later corrected that the person was on life support. CORRECTION UPDATE: Civilian who suffered gunshot wound during protests is on life support, critical condition. Not deceased.— City of Charlotte (@CLTgov) September 22, 2016 The Wednesday night shooting was "civilian on civilian" and the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department did not fire the shot, the City of Charlotte said via Twitter. Four officers suffered non-life-threatening injuries during the protests Wednesday night, police said on Twitter. The latest violence prompted Gov. Pat McCrory to declare a state of … [Read more...] about N.C. Gov. declares state of emergency following violent Charlotte protests

Charlotte, N.C. — Win a few. Lose a few. Win one. Lose one. That’s how a team gets to a .500 record — and that’s the path the Pistons are on, through the first 30 games of the season. After Wednesday’s victory — one of their better wins in Casey’s first season at the helm — the Pistons followed it up with a sluggish performance, falling to the Charlotte Hornets, 98-86, on Friday night at Spectrum Center. For the Pistons (15-15), it’s thefewst points in a game this season, the second loss to the Hornets in the last 10 days and the third this season, giving Charlotte the head-to-head tiebreaker if it comes to it at the end of the season. BOX SCORE: Hornets 98, Pistons 86 “Our give-a-crap level was very low. For a very important game like tonight, when you are a winner, you come out and take this game and come ready to fight,” coach Dwane Casey lamented. “I’ll take the blame for it. I didn’t get our … [Read more...] about Yo-yo Pistons fall back to .500 after loss to Charlotte

Story highlights Girl makes tearful plea at city council meeting saying black parents are getting killed Zianna Oliphant said video of police shootings would sometimes make her cry "I'm going to continue to speak out," she says (CNN)A nine-year-old's impromptu and emotional speech about the recent police shootings has captured world attention. Zianna Oliphant says she didn't plan on addressing Charlotte's city council Monday, a week after the fatal police shooting of Keith Lamont Scott. Zianna delivered her message at a tense council meeting alongside frustrated residents calling for the resignation of the city's mayor and police chief. Girl weeps over police shootings at tense Charlotte meeting Keith Lamont Scott: What we know about man shot by Charlotte police "It's a shame that our fathers and mothers are killed and we can't see them anymore," she said. "It's a shame that we have to go to their graveyard and bury them. And we have tears. We shouldn't have tears. … [Read more...] about Charlotte girl on emotional plea: ‘I’m going to continue to speak out’

She was fearless — so fearless that she paid to have a volume of poems by her and her younger sisters published under pseudonyms, an unusually ambitious act for a woman of her era. Since 1851, obituaries in The New York Times have been dominated by white men. With Overlooked , we’re adding the stories of remarkable people. BySusan Dominus Charlotte Brontë was a 20-year-old schoolteacher — impatient, dreamy, long-suffering, unpublished — when, in 1836, she sent a sample of her writing to Robert Southey, England’s poet laureate at the time. Although her friend and biographer Elizabeth Gaskell would eventually write of Brontë’s “constitutional absence of hope,” the young teacher clearly already had a firm sense of her own worth — an enterprising spirit and ambition, and a longing for her own genius to find its way into the world. In his reply, Southey acknowledged that Brontë showed talent, but he … [Read more...] about Overlooked No More: Charlotte Brontë, Novelist Known for ‘Jane Eyre’